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Ayaan Mordani
4-C
Roll No 12

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Roll no.6

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(a) Causative pathogen - Plasmodium sps.

(b) Mode of transmission - By the bite of female Anopheles mosquito.

(c) Symptoms - Chilliness, severe headache. rising temperature, and sweating are common symptoms of malaria.

(d) Prevention, control and treatment Preventive measures include elimination of mosquitoes by spraying insecticides, use of mosquito repellents, eradication of mosquito larvae from breeding sites, removing stagnant water from houses, colonies, drains etc. and adding few drops of kerosene oil or petrol to the stagnant water. Drugs like chloroquine, primaquine are used for treatment of malaria.

Name malaria was given by Muculoch in 1872 AD on the benifit that it was caused by bad air.

Laveran (1880) AD discovered that malaria is caused by a

protozoan parasite. Sir Ronald Ross, a doctor in Indian

army, established that malarial parasite is transmitted by

the bite of a female Anopheles.

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(a) Causative pathogen - Plasmodium sps. (b) Mode of transmission - By the bite of female Anopheles mosquito. (c) Symptoms - Chilliness, severe headache. rising temperature, and sweating are common symptoms of malaria. (d) Prevention, control and treatment Preventive measures include elimination of mosquitoes by spraying insecticides, use of mosquito repellents, eradication of mosquito larvae from breeding sites, removing stagnant water from houses, colonies, drains etc.